TABLE OF CONTENTS

FROM SILVER TO GOLD

Fifty Years in the Bonds of Matrimony Anne Bernays.................................6

The Occasional Persistence of Love Marge Piercy......................................15

The Marriage of Lost Fathers Susan Dworkin.............................................24

A Great Wall Aimee Liu.........................................................................39

Koan Kathleen Aguero...........................................................................51

An Experiment in Improvisation Bharati Mukherjee....................................66

FROM STEEL TO CHINA

A Twenty-First Century Ritual Erica Jong..................................................84

Third Time Around:
Snapshots from at Long Last a Long-Term Marriage Julia Alvarez..................91

The Finish Line Jean Trounstine.............................................................106

Mrs. Married Person Susan Cheever.........................................................118

In the Ink of my Blood Maria Hinojosa.......................................................127

18, 260 Breakfasts Eve LaPlante...............................................................137

The Two of Us Jennifer Heath.................................................................148

FROM SUGAR TO TIN

Gathered Elizabeth Graver.....................................................................158

First Person Plural Helen Fremont...........................................................172

Preserved in Salt:
How Emeril Live! And Egyptology Are Saving My Marriage
Liza Wieland.........................................................................................183

Murmurs Audrey Schulman.....................................................................196

My Husband, His Girlfriend, Her Husband, My Lover and Others
Hannah Pines........................................................................................207

Matching Luggage Karen Propp................................................................219

FROM PAPER TO WOOD

Being Mr. Packer ZZ Packer....................................................................235

Monogamy Meltdown Kamy Wicoff............................................................250

I’d Have To Be Even Crazier Than I Am to Screw This One Up
Meredith Maran....................................................................................262

Of Rivers and Love Diana Abu-Jaber.........................................................274

Marrying Out of History Nell Casey..........................................................285